By taking on the public health responsibilities for a defined population, Pandemic Response Officers were able to preserve TCHD’s case investigation and public health response capacity for the county’s more vulnerable populations.
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This article highlights the decreasing investment of nonprofit hospitals in community-building activities despite the importance of SDOH.
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The American Cancer Society’s (ACS) efforts to build capacity to address cancer disparities are bolstered by staff health equity-related trainings and engagements.
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Health departments help address social determinants of health by providing critical support to multisector community partnerships, including funding, technical assistance, and connecting organizations with shared missions.
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As we recover from an unprecedented pandemic, we have an opportunity to leverage recent investments in the US public health system to address social determinants of health, and practice-based evidence is needed to inform and strengthen future community-driven interventions.
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Without better quality data collected, community health needs assessments could possibly further health disparities because the priorities identified may only target a small subset of the population.
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Elimination of health disparities requires recognition of the subjectivity of data and the power of data to dictate and reinforce narratives, accompanied by intentional reform of data practices.
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Addressing SDOH is a priority for CDC. Authors of a new commentary in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice describe how the agency has undertaken multiple steps to ensure that efforts to address SDOH fall within CDC’s broader health equity strategy.
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It is critical to approach climate medicine with a structural lens rather than a narrowly focused approach of climate-health knowledge alone that does not connect this existential threat to the broader socio-political ecosystem in which we function. Climate negotiations (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, this November were some of the most consequential in human history in determining our collective path forward
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The enormity and complexity of the climate crisis requires public health to step up and draw not only from its usual disciplinary strengths but also from fields of anthropology, sociology, social ethics, and philosophy to propose solutions that center human rights and health equity in climate negotiations and eventual climate agreements. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging due to willful governmental
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